Poverty reduction strategies
- The gender implications of pension reforms. General remarks and evidence from selected countries
- This paper critically analyses the gender dimensions of pension schemes, drawing detailed examples from pension reform schemes in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The paper provides the analysis along two axes: structures regulating the access to benefits and conditions that determine benefit levels. The paper highlights some of the most significant features of pension systems that have a gender impact.
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- Linking poverty and disaster vulnerability in the Caribbean
- ( M. Attzs / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2008)
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The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future rem...
- Gender dimensions of adivasi livelihood vulnerability
- ( S Arun / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2008)
- This paper focuses on the livelihood issues of adivasi or the scheduled tribes in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Examining the gendered vulnerability context of adivasi livelihoods, the author a...
The right to food from a gender perspective: a consideration of international law and state practice
- ( I. Rae / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2008)
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This paper provides a cross-cutting analysis of the right to food from a gender perspective, examining relevant international instruments as well as state practice. The discussion is ...
Addressing the gender-differentiated risks of liquid biofuel production
- ( A. Rossi;Y. Lambrou / Economic and Social Department, FAO , 2008)
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The production of liquid biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel is rapidly increasing in developing countries, due mainly to the establishment of large-scale biofuel feedstock plantations. This ...
- Female headed households and their children in the Gambia, the Philippines and Costa Rica
- ( S. Chant / LSE Research Online , 2007)
- Are women really the ‘poorest of the poor’, and are their children really disproportionately afflicted by an ‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’? A mounting...
- Insights on risk and protective factors for preventing Child Marriage
- ( S. Jain;K. Kurz / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2007)
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One in seven girls in the developing world marries before the age of fifteen. Nearly half of the 331 million girls in developing countries are expected to marry by their 20th birthday. At this rate...
Time poverty in Lesotho: a gendered analysis
- ( D. Lawson / ESRC Global Poverty Research Group , 2007)
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Are there gender differences associated with the impact of infrastructure? This paper uses a large scale nationally representative survey to investigate both socio-economic determinants of time pov...
- Gender mainstreaming in Pakistan
- ( Eldis Document Store , 2007)
- What is gender mainstreaming and how can gender equality be achieved? This paper gives a brief introduction to gender and how mainstreaming relates to poverty reduction. It provides an overview of gen...
- What are the link between gender-based violence and HIV?
- ( , 2007)
- At the 2006 International Aids Conference a meeting was convened to explore the linkages between gender based violence (GBV) and HIV. Its objective was to understand common challenges and to inform r...
- Women's social exclusion from productive resources in Niger
- ( M. Diarra; M. Monimart / Drylands Programme, IIED , 2006)
- This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralisation. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems....
